What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn. African Proverb (via emotional-algebra)
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There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally. Don Miguel Ruiz
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In the dream I was onstage and there were thousands of you goin’ bananas for me, all laughing and clapping, celebrating your brains out, not because I was somethin’ else up there, but because you were just so happy I was finally starting to get it. Buddy Wakefield
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Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed. Thich Nhat Hanh (via emotional-algebra)
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Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself. Edmund Lee
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We are the miracles that God made

To taste the bitter fruit of time

We are precious

And one day our suffering

Will turn into the wonders of the Earth

 Ben Okri
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You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. Frederick Buechner (via emotional-algebra)
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Do not settle for less than exactly what you want. Your heart’s desires are there for a reason. Chase them. Pursue them relentlessly. Do not lose sight of your goals. They are your very reason for being. Franki Durbin
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Let there be
an opening
into the quiet
that lies beneath
the chaos,
where you find
the peace
you did not think
possible
and see what shimmers
within the storm. Jan Richardson, from  “Blessing in the Chaos”
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How wonderful is it that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world? Anne Frank (via emotional-algebra)
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